Donna Backues
Mountain Spirit
2016
Acrylic, ink, graphite on board
24" x 24" x 0.5"

About the Work
This piece is part of a large body of work called, "Imagined Landscapes" which reference aerial landscapes, volcanoes, craters, bodies of water and land-based forms inspired by places I have lived, visited or viewed from the window of an airplane. Some of my works are imaginary islands like inner landscapes of memory seen from above and others are emotional responses to specific events or historical paintings. They are all created with landscapes in mind.

Bio
Donna Backues has a BA in Studio Art and Graphic Design from Southern Illinois University, an MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and an MA in Urban Studies & Community Arts, from Eastern University.

After working for several years as a graphic designer, Donna moved to Indonesia. For 18 years she integrated her visual art skills with grassroots development in West Java. Later when she returned the US, she taught at the Village of Arts and Humanities, Mural Arts Philadelphia and Fleisher Art Memorial. Donna has been awarded numerous artist residencies including the Philadelphia Art Museum's Delphi Art Futures and Art Partners program, Spiral Q and Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts. In 2013 Donna won first prize in the American Batik Design Competition, in 2014 she was awarded the Art & Change Grant by the Leeway foundation and in 2017, the NewCourtland Fellowship.

Along with her community/social work with immigrants and refugees in South Philadelphia, Donna continues to work as a studio artist, teaching artist & community artist. Four of her paintings are in the Philadelphia Convention Center's permanent collection. Her public murals can be seen in Philadelphia, Camden New Jersey and in Leeds, England. Her paintings have been collected and exhibited internationally in Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Gregory Brellochs
Lichen XXVII
2020
Graphite on paper mounted on panel
15" x 15"

About the Work
I find that the immediate and direct process of drawing serves as a means by which I can meditate on the fundamental nature of things. I see image-making as a way of creating not just a physical relationship to concepts, but a sensual and emotional one as well. I want my work to be felt, not just experienced. I want the concepts that I am exploring to resonate with the viewer on a basic visceral level.

Bio
Gregory Brellochs is a Philadelphia based artist, Professor, and the Visual and Performing Arts, Chair at Camden County College in Blackwood, New Jersey. Brellochs' work has been recognized through awards such as the 2018 Meyer's Family Award for Contemporary Arts, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists CDP Fellowship, the Wind Challenge Exhibition Series at the Fleisher Art Memorial, and the William D. Davis Award for Drawing at the Art of the State Exhibition in Harrisburg, PA. Brellochs has held numerous solo exhibitions and has been featured in a number of prestigious juried and curated group exhibitions both regionally and nationally. His work is included in the contemporary drawings collection of the Viewing Program through The Drawing Center in New York City. Brellochs earned his B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and an M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Stuart Lehrman
On Paper #46
2019
Chalk, oil, wax pastel, lacquer, acrylic & oil enamel paint, on archival paper
30'' x 24''

Erica Ehrenbard
Untitled Blue Squares
2014
Pen, paper, brass, walnut
10.5" x 6.5" x 0.5"

About the Work
Digesting the experience of being alive is my ever-present artistic motivation. I impart instinct and psychological states into physical form, paying close attention to my own body as I work. By aligning with my media I internalize its characteristics, which I amplify to create objects that feel 'one' with their source. Yet, the trace of my making inevitably leaves an imprint of my humanity, and thus an inherent connection to those who experience the work.

Bio
Erica Ehrenbard is a sculptor based in Philadelphia, where she has revitalized an early-20th-century carriage house. Out of her studio, Ehrenbard runs a custom metalworking company, Carriage Creative Co., that pairs her artistic sensibility with professional design and fabrication capacities. Ehrenbard additionally works as a Researcher for KieranTimberlake, where she engages architects in articulating design questions, builds architectural prototypes, and leads fabrication projects. Erica was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, earning her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been awarded residencies with Vermont Studio Center and Chashama. Erica's work has been acquired by private collectors.

Richard King
Mixed Use
2022
Acrylic and oil pigment on wood panel
16" x 12"
(framed)

About the Work
My art practice has grown out of a need to manage bouts of insomnia over many years, drawing to distract myself from the realities of sleeplessness. I am fascinated by curious geometries and shapes from the world I see around me, from objects, to architecture to letter form. I work to conflate their formal, spatial and figural qualities, tapping into the perceptions and memories of the viewer, creating something that is foreign, yet familiar.

Working with tools from my architectural training, I develop drawings in graphite, ink and paint as well as in digital form. Pieces are drawn in layers, subtracting and adding lines to clarify interesting qualities that begin to emerge, often reworking them over long periods of time. I see this work as adding to the collection of shapes/spaces that we unconsciously absorb, as we make sense of our every day world.

Bio
Based in Philadelphia, Richard works as an artist, architect and educator. His art practice is focused on abstract drawing, painting and sculpture, exploring shape, geometry and light. Educated as an architect, he holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Temple University and a Master of Architecture from University of Pennsylvania. Richard is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

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Susan W Lowry
Plant Life: Progeny
2019
Graphite, collage media on paper.
25" x 19"
Framed

About the Work
I developed a small series of collages that utilize botanical references to work as a metaphor for evolution, memory, inherited connections, including gradual and abrupt transitions in materials and identity. "Progeny" is the product of appropriation of sorts, recycling an earlier drawing of mine as the foundation for more recent investigations. I wanted to embrace the state of becoming that drew me back to the original work.

Bio
I'm an artist living and working in the Philadelphia area. My investigations have always taken me to mixed media in both painting and drawing. I'm drawn to the non-linear narrative, to the use of varied media in pursuing the idea of abrupt change, and altered perspectives.